[1_Rain_Drop]

Doesn’t Trump have this wrong?
Emminent domain means that the city grabs the land for free. There is no compensation to the homeowner.

In my neck of the woods, a landowner wanted a refund of the Real Estate taxes she had paid for twenty years. The town lawyer decided that the taxes she had paid were “donations”!!! and so the town paid her $0.00 for her land. That land is now a park...which no one uses.

Meanwhile the State wants to take my driveway and make it a public road. My driveway is three feet from my bedroom. The compensation is minimal.

Emminent domain is theft.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I believe Trump is referring to the eminent domain wrought by Kelo, which basically said that property could be taken if a developer was going to turn it into something that paid more taxes to the government.

The government considers more tax revenue to be the greater good.

[Jim from C-Town]

Eminent Domain requires JUST compensation per the takings clause of the fifth amendment. Just compensation is subjective.